Sentences with phrase «certain poignancy»

Faced by the long stall in anything that can believably be described as ecumenical progress, the Princeton Proposal is marked by a certain poignancy.

There is a certain poignancy to this comment, because it can be argued that Kramer's lifelong battle against politicized intellectuals has shaped — and therefore limited — his own career.

Standing here today and thinking about the journey that has brought me here, I also feel a certain poignancy, because my mother, who is no longer alive, would have been particularly proud, and would have loved to be here.

There is a certain poignancy to a film that metaphorically examines the stages of a woman's life through each character.

That many Americans believe Bush has used such earpieces, and that he rarely if ever reads a newspaper, brings a certain poignancy to these scenes.

Many of these contemporary works are well - trodden classics by this point, but seeing them in the context of nearly 100 years of art lends them a certain poignancy, especially during a fair week, when so many of the products being sold seem unlikely to endure for even another decade.

(This revelation gained a certain poignancy by the fact that David Weiss had passed away only two weeks earlier.)

Yet the beginning of the new school year also always has a certain poignancy and tenderness to it.